When I wrote a couple weeks ago about being tethered to the phone it got me thinking about my history with the telephone. My great-grandfather had a candlestick phone. If you are not sure what that is look it up. It was a pretty little phone that you held in your hand while talking. I am ...

Yesterday after running a few errands, I opened my front door and just stood. Breathing. Smiling. Ahhhhh … garlic! To me, the house smelled wonderful — like walking into an aromatic little trattoria. I realize this may not be the way everybody likes their house to smell, but for me it ...

On Sept. 13, convicted murderer Danelo Cavalcante was captured after escaping from a Chester County prison. He murdered his girlfriend in front of her children. He is wanted in his native Brazil for another murder. Daniel Hernandez Martinez was arrested six times in New York for 14 crimes ...

We are about to embark on the prettiest season of the year in my opinion. When I renovated Hickory Heights, I had that in mind. I added a window on the back side of the house so I can see what goes on behind my house and I added a bay window on the east side. It depends where I am sitting ...

On baseball’s Opening Day that year, I was 12-years-old. It was a Tuesday, and it was going to be the biggest day of my life. Julie McNamara, my new best friend, had extended the invitation from her father. “Would you like to come to see the Red Sox with us next week? It’s Opening Day ...

For many years this country has been going down a slippery slope. In the last two-plus years things have accelerated to a nearly unsustainable rate, and it may already be too late to make enough corrections to right the ship. Inflation is at or near an all-time high partly due to major cost ...